M l/'/.LY FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



The CHAIRMAN. Don't you think, Col. Loggie, that where the government has 

 passed an Act declaring its intention to do something, which can be done by Order in 

 Council, that it would be scarcely the thing for us to force immediate action upon them ? 

 I have no objection to a resolution being passed as you suggest, but it just occurs to me 

 that if they have passed an Act which gives them authority to do certain things, that 

 they will do them in their own good time. There may be some difficulty in selecting the 

 area, of which we have no knowledge. 



I am not anxious that this association should assume any more than the government 

 of the province. 



COL. LOGGIE. The Act was passed two years ago, and all that time has elapsed. 

 The thing has probably gone out of their minds altogether. 



The CHAIRMAN. Do you think that this will bring it to their minds? 



DR. CLARK. I do not think it would be advisable for the association to pro- 

 tend to advise the government in a matter of this kind, unless the 'facts were fully laid 

 before us. 



Mr. CHOWN. Several gentlemen have suggested to me that no matter of greater 

 importance has come before this meeting than the one to which I referred a few mo- 

 ments ago. In order that it may be brought properly before the meeting, I have drafted 

 a resolution, which I think will not meet with any very serious opposition. 



I therefore beg to move the following resolution, which is seconded by Mr. Craig : 



' That in view of the very serious results in different states through heavy taxation 

 on forest acreage, the Canadian Forestry Association respectfully urge upon the dif- 

 ferent provinces that revenue from forest lands be so far as possible raised by stumpage 

 dues rather than rentals.' 



I do not know whether you will allow us to discuss this matter now, Mr. Chair- 

 man, but a great many of us feel that a resolution of this kind would, in the present 

 state of the forest, in the Dominion, perhaps be as valuable and as large a step as we 

 can take. 



I have not made the resolution in any way personal to British Columbia, or to 

 ny of the other provinces. It is simply an expression of the opinion of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association that the provinces should raise their revenues from stumpage 

 dues, and from the sale of the rights, rather than have high rental, which led to the 

 complete clearing of the land, as has been said before. 



The CHAIRMAN-. Before that resolution is put to the meeting I want to say that 



t is scarcely fair to propose a resolution at this time that is so far reaching 



effects as this, and which requires so much thought and discussion, and which 



this association into antagonism with the well considered policy of the different 



wnally, I do not think that we ought to do anything of the kind. If 



ion is going to be taken up, I will have to ask: somebody to take the chair, 



and l will proceed to discuss it. 



